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American Montage draws on Brooklyn-based artist Adam Cvijanovic’s merging of influences from nineteenth-century American landscape painting and twentieth-century cinematic techniques. The exhibition features installations and paintings on his signature Tyvek surfaces from the past fifteen years. Cvijanovic’s methods of fracturing, cutting, layering, and sequencing imagery to collapse space, time, and narrative demonstrate a montage of American visual perspective. The exhibition premiers three new works: Flint Hills (2015), inspired by the artist’s site visit in fall 2014; The Fall (Capri) (2015), Cvijanovic’s first work to include a soundtrack; and Hollywood and Sunset (2014–15), his reintroduction of the figure in almost a decade.

This exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Accompanying audio component of The Fall (Capri) is available on The Kemper app. Downloadable from the App Store or Google Play Store.

Purchase the Kemper Museum's publication, Adam Cvijanovic: American Montage, now at the Museum Shop.

Nuart, 2006
 Flashe acrylic and latex on Tyvek
 180 x 360 inches
 Collection of Christopher Hamick
 © Adam Cvijanovic. Photo: EG Schempf, 2015

Nuart (detail), 2006
 Flashe acrylic and latex on Tyvek
 180 x 360 inches
 Collection of Christopher Hamick
 © Adam Cvijanovic. Photo: EG Schempf, 2015

Iolanthe, 2005
 Flashe acrylic and house paint on Tyvek
 96 x 144 inches
 Collection of the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
 Gift of Ellen and David Dolgen
 © Adam Cvijanovic. Photo: EG Schempf, 2015

Childhood of Buster Keaton, 2009
 Flashe acrylic on Tyvek
 108 x 168 inches
 Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters Gallery, New York
 © Adam Cvijanovic. Photo: EG Schempf, 2015

Hollywood and Sunset, 2014–15 
 Flashe and house paint on Tyvek 
 48 x 180 inches 
 Courtesy of the artist and Postmaster Gallery, New York
 Photo: EG Schempf, 2015

Abandoned Drive-in, 2000 
 Flashe and house paint on Tyvek 
 144 x 480 inches 
 Courtesy of the West Collection, Oaks, Pennsylvania 
 Photo: EG Schempf, 2015

Abandoned Drive-in, 2000 (installation view)

The Fall (Capri), 2015 
 Flashe and latex, Tyvek, canvas, paper, plexiglass, recorded audio components 
 168 x 720 inches 
 Courtesy Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy.
 Photo: EG Schempf, 2015

Accompanying audio component available on The Kemper app. Downloadable from the App Store or Google Play Store.

The Fall (Capri) (detail), 2015 
 Flashe and latex, Tyvek, canvas, paper, plexiglass, recorded audio components 
 168 x 720 inches 
 Courtesy Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy. 

Accompanying audio component available on The Kemper app. Downloadable from the App Store or Google Play Store.

Exhibition Preview

Adam Cvijanovic: American Montage

Belshazzar’s Feast, 2008 
 Flashe and latex on Tyvek on wood 
 9 panels, 192 x 48 inches each 
 Courtesy of the artist and Postmaster Gallery, New York
 Photo: EG Schempf, 2015